Adobe Releases new Encoder Presets for Media Encoder CS6

Adobe Blogs has the news on this one.

Adobe has releases a set of Tablet settings for the Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble Nook, iPad 1 and 2 and Android Tablets as well as XDCAM EX and AVC-Intra in MXF wrappers for Windows and for Mac.

And for Mac OS only they have released a set of ProRes 422 Encoding Presets.

Basically you download them and exract them, then open Adobe Media Encoder CS6 and chose Preset > Import and import the presets.

This is great, and these should have come with the program, and they need to make presets for the New iPad as well!

Apple has slightly updated the MacPro

9 to 5 Mac is reporting that in fact Apple has slightly updated the MacPro towers with new Processors, but no Thunderbolt, no USB 3 and no new Graphics cards. This actually makes me more worried that they are killing the MacPro, because who wants a MacPro with so little upgrade? I mean the new processors are nice, but come on. And not only that they are still 2 year old processors, not the latest Xeon’s Intel has released, so while they 12 core is $1200 cheaper than it used to be, it is still old tech.

And if the MacBook’s get NVIDIA graphics cards, why not the MacPro? We want CUDA as well, not the same 2 year old graphics card!

This is not an upgrade. It is a little FU to all us power users!

COME ON APPLE, WTF!

New MacBook Pros

Apple has the pages up on the new MacBook pros.

The MacBook Pro with Retina Display, and the new 13 and 15″ MacBook Pros with the old encloses and Optical Drives.

I am still not sure about SSD as it is just too small. Especially if I am moving to a laptop as my main machine for e-mail and documents and a tower for editing. The worst part is my music and video library is almost a terrabyte itself, so there is no way that could make it on a laptop!

Well, not like I can afford anything new right now, but it does look like Windows will be in my future!

No MacPro announced at the WWDC

Now they could be releasing it and not announcing it, but that seems unlikely. Looks like Apple may in fact be killing the MacPro all together. And while I would love a Retina display MacBook Pro, it looks like my next editing machine will be a Windows machine. As I can get better graphics cards and have more room for storage. I never wanted to have to move to windows, but if Apple is really putting the MacPro out to pasture I will have no option but to move away from the Macs that I love and get a windows machine. Maybe if we make enough money I can get a laptop to be my personal computer and have the tower just for editing, but will need to make a lot more money first! SHIT!

Apple WWDC News

So far there is a new MacBook Air which is faster and faster MacBook Pro 13 and 15″ models and the 15″ gets an NVIDIA GeForce 650M, so say hello to Mercury playback from Adobe, nice.

And a new MacBook Pro, which is super thin, but not like an Air and has a Retina Display. Only .71 inches thick and only 4.46 pounds, lighter than current 13″ MacBook Pro, and it has a 15.4 inch screen, with a 200 ppi pixel density or 5,184,00 pixels! No Optical drive in this model of course. And an updated version of lion with Safari, iMovie, iPhoto made for Retina, as well the pro-apps including Aperature and Final Cut Pro X (yipee fucking do), though being able to see full 1080p in the viewing window is pretty cool, but must take a serious video card! And Photoshop has been updated (or will be soon). Yup it has a GeForce GT 650M with 1 GB of Video Ram. Nice! And up to 768GB of internal flash storage. And up to 7 hours of battery life (that screen has to be a major draw on power). For ports it has SD card, HDMI, USB3 and 2, Magsafe 2, 2 thunderbolt ports and headphone.

It seems the magsafe has been made thinner, nice!

And Firewire 800 and gigabit ethernet adapters for thunderbolt, though I would rather have the ports!

And no word on the 17″ MacBook Pro so it is likely EOL.

Uh Oh, now OS X, does that mean no MacPro. I sure hope not!

Onto Mountain Lion. And 8 new features.

•iCloud built in. With Apps updated for iCloud, so your documents can live in the cloud (hurray can we use Pages docs with iPad and Pages on the Mac? Looks like it ). And a final version of messages for the Mac, which will also send SMS (How does that work, do you pay via your phone?).

•Notification Center, banners are top right (just like Growl) or can slide notification center our from right. And can support from other services like Twitter.

•Dictation to the Mac. Probably need something to replace my old iSight though!

•Sharing, now built in to share to twitter from everywhere, and an SDK for any app to support it.

•New Safari, unified top search and url bar like Chrome. Share tabs across iCloud to mac and iOS, and can see what tabs you have open in what place. And Visual Tab View.

•Power Nap. Keeps Mac up to date while it sleeps, fetching e-mail and keeping track of calenders. Still backup to time capsule, download from app store and automatic software updates, and doesn’t spin up fans and goes easy on battery.

•Airplay mirroring, display your mac onto your TV with an Apple TV and up to 1080 content (how does that work with the new retina display?).

•Game Center makes it to the Mac. Can even play Mac to iOS on certain games.

And Mountain Lion is released next Month for only $19.99! WOW! And that is from Lion and Snow Leopard! And one purchase will do all your personal macs! That rocks!

Now iOS 6. 200 New Features.

•Significant enhancements to Siri, including partnering with Open Table and Yelp. And working with car manufactures to add a siri button to cars! Now that is cool! BMW, GM, Jaguar Mercedes, Honda, Land Rover, Audi, Toyota!

•Integrated Facebook like Twitter before it with public API.

•Phone App enhancements. Can reply with message or add reminder to call back later!

•Do Not distrub, to get no notifications, or allow it to ring for only certain numbers. Or let a second call from someone though.

•Facetime has been enable over cellular. And unifiying phone number and apple iD, so it will work with mac or iPad and the same with iMessage.

•You can upload photos in Safari

•Smart App Banners to let people know of native apps in App Store

•Photo Stream adds sharing and can comment on photos of friends

•Mail adds VIP, really important people, want to be notified, new mailbox, and a flagged mailbox.

•Mail can add photos from compose window.

•Passbook, looks like a replacement for SplashID and 1Password. Also has location based allerts and can load things like your movie ticket on the window. Airline tickets, Fandago Tickets, Store Card from Starbucks, coupons for Target, express hotel check in and all integrated with Lock Screen. Sounds very cool.

•Accessiblity. There is guided access, lets you lock out controls you don’t want kids to be able to access. Single App Mode. Can lock things up so students can’t leave the app to get answers.

•Maps. Yup, rumors were right, they are doing it all themselves, no more Google Maps. What does this mean for traffic? Adding local search. Ah, new traffic view added, shows incidents. All crowd sourced traffic from other iOS phones. Built in turn by turn navigation. With an ETA based on traffic. Integrated with siri and works on lock screen. Siri can give time estimates.

•Flyovers for Maps with 3D photographic models. Maps are all vector based. Can rotate and zoom labels, zoom in far enough buildings appear. And satellite view in 3D. Can change camera angles. Adaptive cinematic camera angles.

•Maps, siri can read out directions and give an eta.

•Maps get an overview at any time and just tap to resume turn by turn directions.

•Mail has per account signatures! Nice!

•Lost Mode where you can send a phone number to that phone and someone who finds it can tap it and call you back.

•iOS 6 will ship this fall and goes to beta developers today.

NO NEW MACPRO! WTF! Either the rumors were wrong or they didn’t bother announcing it.

One of my chest tube wounds opened up

So over the weekend one of my two wounds for my chest tubes opened up. It is healed at the bottom, but it has left a nasty opening and doesn’t look so good. We called the nurses and they said to steri strip it closed and keep it clean and dry and iodined, and at some point today the nurse is supposed to come by and take a look. I may be going to to the emergency room to get stitched back up, that will make for a fun day! It does look rather nasty, looks like the scab has stayed wet from the iodine and is all yellow and pus-ey looking (makes sense that a scab is made from white blood cells).

Other than that the worst part is the coughing. I seem to still have liquid in my lungs from having the tube into my lungs fro surgery. It is maybe a little better, but I am still having to use a spirometer to exercise my lungs and have someone clap my back while I cough to clear the liquid (which is clear so not infected), but it hurts like all hell, and there is no way I can do the 2 minutes on each side of my lungs as nose fills with the liquid and i have to sit up to clear my head in between switching to the other side.

The only thing that hurts as much is when I sneeze, and all the pollen outside is not helping that much, and while my nose spray helps, it is not helping much.

On the actual recovery side I am doing pretty great. I am to about 5000 steps a day and can pretty easily do a 25 minute walk without getting out of breath and there is no way I could do that before. I was getting tired walking slowly, and would have to stop a few times in 15 minutes, so there is obviously a vast improvement there, and hopefully it will continue to get better.

I seem to have stopped shedding weight as my appetite comes back, but I went into surgery at 235 pounds and am now at 219.5, so I at least have lost some weight, and hopefully with the extra exercise I can continue to lose more in the near future.

One of the hardest things is a low sodium diet. That is to keep my blood pressure down and heart rate down, and it is as hard as all hell. Have any of you every looked at all the sodium in items at the grocery store? It is sick how much sodium is in our food! I mean a low sodium diet is something under 3000 MG, though I am likely doing well under 1000, but it is so hard. No deli meat, have to cook your own chicken, and make your own salad dressing. There is so much sodium in even no fat salad dressing. And it seems most grocery stores don’t even carry the lowest sodium options that companies make (like Tuna Fish they have 50% less sodium, but the companies make another step beyond that). And bread has so much sodium in it per slice. And why does ice cream have sodium?

I have been told to cut back on Tylenol (which is all I am on for the pain), so I am having very little in a day, but still need it at times. Mainly I am getting headaches, and have some muscles aches still, and then my is killing me where it is out. Can’t wait to be able to get my back adjusted, but have to wait for my sternum to heal first, so it will be at least another 4 weeks before I can get it fixed, and that seems to be one of the main things causing me pain at this point.

Still it is amazing where I am at about 2 and a half weeks out, just hope to get this chest wound taken care of today, but still no word from the nurse as of yet.

Apple WWDC Keynote starts in a few minute

I am hoping for a kick ass new MacPro with the option of a high end NVIDIA graphics card, though the rumor sites seem to think it will be a last gen ATI card that is featured, which would suck, and prove that Apple does not get Video pros at all..

Not Such a Good Day Recovery Wise

Woke up this morning and one of my chest tube wounds had opened a bit in the night, and was bleeding. Think they took the stiches out too early. Had to get butterfly bandages and tape to close it up.

Also am so sore today. Walked too much yesterday, over 7500 steps and am paying for it. My knees and legs are killing me. Pushed it too much.